netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] nexthop: fix uninitialized variable in nla_put_nh_group

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Message-ID: <ZfxTsVPwYbruXJfY@nanopsycho>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:35:13 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Petr Machata <petrm@...dia.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] nexthop: fix uninitialized variable in
 nla_put_nh_group_stats()

Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 03:42:18PM CET, dan.carpenter@...aro.org wrote:
>The "*hw_stats_used" value needs to be set on the success paths to prevent
>an uninitialized variable bug in the caller, nla_put_nh_group_stats().
>
>Fixes: 5072ae00aea4 ("net: nexthop: Expose nexthop group HW stats to user space")
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>